1 Chronicles 28

First, our willingness is more esteemed than our service. Therefore David counsels Solomon, not only to serve God, but with a willing mind (1 Chronicles 28:9). The will makes sin to be worse, and it makes duty to be better.

To know God, in whom is both Verum & Bonum, truth and goodness, is the masterpiece of wisdom. (1 Chronicles 28:9) And you Solomon my son, know the God of your father. And this knowledge of God is through Christ.

Crowns are signs of greatest honor, but these crowns the angels lay at the Lord's feet, to show that they ascribe the glory of all they do to him. 4. We do God's will as it is done in Heaven by the angels, when we do it willingly, sine murmuratione: The angels love to be employe…

For the visible pledge of God's presence and his worship. God's throne, as we have showed, was represented by the ark, mercy-seat, and cherubims, in the most holy place; whereon the sanctuary itself was his footstool (1 Chronicles 28:2; Psalm 99:5; Psalm 132:7). So it is applied…

The Septuagint read, (Deuteronomy 31:28) [⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩], Gather to me all the Elders. The like you may find, (1 Kings 8:1; 1 Chronicles 28:1). I shall next put him in mind that the Septuagint sometime turn Kahal by [⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩], as (Proverbs 26:26), His w…

Let such take heed that God cast not them off for ever. (1 Chronicles 28:9) (it is a speech of David to his son Solomon) If you seek Him, He will be found of you; but if you forsake Him, He will cast you off for ever: How much more if you do cast off the thing that is good. Oh!…

See (Psalm 119:27; Jeremiah 22:15, 16; John 17:8; 1 John 1:3, 4, and 4:7). Now that knowledge of Himself and of His will which God requires is pleasing to God (1 Chronicles 28:9; Hosea 6:6). And he who is furnished with it is pleasing and acceptable to Him (Jeremiah 24:7).

Their duty in the entrance of their youth is, according to their gifts and diversity of them, to prepare them to some profitable calling in the Church, by applying them to it, beating into them the gifts and conscientious use of the gifts which is required. [1 Chronicles 28:9. T…

Of the actions of the body orderly and reverently used, are bowing of our bodies (Isaiah 45:23). Reverent attention declared sometimes by rising up (Genesis 49:33; 1 Chronicles 28:2; Numbers 23:22; 2 Kings 23:2; 2 Chronicles 34:31; Nehemiah 8:6). Also lifting up of the hands and…

“The Lord has sworn in truth unto David; he will not turn from it; Of the fruit of your body will I set upon your throne,” (Psalm 132:11.) Solomon was, beyond controversy, the type of this eternal King who was promised to David; nor can the promise be applied to Christ, except i…

But this answers not to the description given afterwards of them in Ezekiel, much less with the same appellation given to the winds and clouds (Psalms 18:10). The word has a great affinity with [in non-Latin alphabet] a chariot; so are the angels of God called his chariots (Psal…

David had the pattern of all things pertaining to the temple showed him, even in like manner as Moses had the pattern of the tabernacle: and Solomon built the temple according to that pattern which he had from his father David, which he received from God. 1 Chronicles 28:11, 12.…

There may be some assent, such as may engage to profession, and partial reformation, but the whole heart is not subdued to God. Then do we believe with the whole heart, when the heart is warmed with the things we know and assent to, when there is a full and free consent to take…

When we delight in God and find full complacency in him as our all-sufficient portion, without reserving any part of our hearts for other things. So for obedience, 1 Chronicles 28:9: And you Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart, and wit…

1. God, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost: Father, as a lawgiver; Son, as a Redeemer, and head of the renewed estate; Holy Ghost, as our Sanctifier. 1. God the Father, who in the mystery of redemption is represented as our lawgiver, and Sovereign Lord; and will be not only known and w…

Every one of us in person does actually break with God before he breaks with us (2 Chronicles 15:2): If you forsake him, he will forsake you. (1 Chronicles 28:9): David tells Solomon, If you forsake him, he will cast you off for ever; he will not acknowledge you. Take this right…

Light breeds an awe of God, and minds us of our duty upon all occasions. (1 Chronicles 28:9) And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your fathers, and serve him with a perfect heart, and a willing [reconstructed: mind]. First know him, and then serve him.

What says the Apostle, in (1 Thessalonians 2:11), We charged every one of you, as a father his children. We should call aside our young people, and lay upon them, the charge of David, in (1 Chronicles 28:9), My son, know you the God of your Father, and serve Him with a perfect h…

The very chatterings of our infants are pleasant to us; the praises and the devotions of young persons are so to our Father which is in Heaven; and he asks for them with ungainsayable importunities. 'Twas said to a young man in 1 Chronicles 28:9, If you seek the Lord, He will be…

Genesis 18:19: I know that Abraham will command his children, and they shall keep the way of the Lord. 1 Chronicles 28:9: And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a perfect heart. Surely Abraham and David did not take God's name in vain.

2. Consider it has ever been the Saints practice to instruct and teach their children the way of God. David we finde dropping instruction into his sonne Solomon, 1 Chronicles 28:9. Know you the God of your Father, and serve him with a perfect heart, and with a willing minde.

(1) We take no heed to the imaginations, and are not grieved for the constitution of the heart, for actual sins make original sin to swell, as two floods running into one makes a huge river. (2) We take not heed to the young births of the heart; with the concurrence of the mind,…

2. Delight in Religion crowns all our services. Therefore David counsels his son Solomon, not only to serve God, but to serve him with a willing mind, 1 Chronicles 28.9. Delight in duty is better than duty itself; as it is worse for a man to delight in sin, than to commit it, be…

The first, is knowledge of God; the second, the worship of God. These two are notably described by David, in his last will and Testament, wherein he commends to Solomon his son before all other things, the care and love of Religion and piety; the sum whereof, he reduces to these…

Q. 5. What is that holiness which is required of us? That (a) universal sincere obedience to the whole will of God, (b) in our hearts, minds, wills, and actions, (c) whereby we are in some measure made conformable to Christ our head. (a) Psalm 119:9; 1 Samuel 15:22; John 14:15;…

Q. 5. What is that holiness which is required of us? A. That (a) universal sincere obedience to the whole will of God, (b) in our hearts, minds, wills, and actions, (c) whereby we are in some measure made conformable to Christ our head. (a) Psalm 119. 9. 1 Samuel 15. 22. John 14…

They are no better shelter, nor will afford any greater security and safeguard to the soul than any other vain hiding place; and therefore, they that trust in them trust in falsehood; a lie is that which is spoken to deceive the creature: thus when men speak of their privileges,…

1. Protestants lay down this as the [in non-Latin alphabet], as the very beginning and first principle of their confidence and confession, that all Scripture is given by inspiration of God, as the Holy Ghost teaches them (2 Timothy 3:16). That is, that the books of the Old and N…